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Advising the Congress on Medicare issues
MedPAC > Recommendations > Skilled nursing facility services (1)

Skilled nursing facility services (1)

March 15, 2019

The Congress should proceed to revise the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system in fiscal year 2020 and should annually recalibrate the relative weights of the case-mix groups to maintain alignment of payments and costs.

Appeared in: March 2019 - Chapter 8

Topics: Post-acute care.